20. Conservatives who were devastated by the national election results demonstrated how to lose with dignity and grace. There will be finger-pointing and recriminations and soul-searching, but committed activists can’t and won’t lose heart. We’ll regroup, recover, and keep fighting for our country.

Go back and remember the Republican primary campaign season of late 2011 and early 2012. If you had told most conservatives -- and most people on this site, in particular -- that Mitt Romney would not be the next President of the United States, they would have been thrilled.

Sometimes we just don't know how to appreciate the good things in life, eh?

In Michigan, Prop 2 would have given the unions constitutional veto power over the state legislature. -DEFEATED

Prop 3 would have constitutionally mandated that the state be 25% powered by green energy (primarily wind) by 2025. Even supporters called it impossible but wanted a constitutional mandate anyway. - DEFEATED

Prop 4 would have given unions a constitutional right to seize union dues from home care workers who get no representation from a union. (primarily family members caring for severely disabled spouses or offspring). -DEFEATED

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posted on 11/08/2012 5:52:33 PM PST
by cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)

Just to add since this article is a day old, today it was finally confirmed in Arkansas that Republicans have taken over both houses of the state legislature, only the senate had been confirmed by yesterday due to malfunctioning software. Plus the way Arkansas has gone solidly Republican since the Kenyan took office, we will have an easy pickup in the national Senate when Pryor comes up for reelection in 2014.

Wisconsin regained GOP control of the state senate and even gained a seat in the Assembly. On the agenda for next term are more election reforms, change of venue for lawsuits against state government, and even discussions of possible tax cuts.

Another small silver lining - Barney Frank is no longer in Congress, though too bad it wasn’t because of electoral defeat.

“...And where did Marco Rubio, now hailed by the Republican establishment as a 2016 favorite, come from? Not from the RINO establishment. It backed Charlie “Tan-in-a-Can” Crist and fought Rubio tooth and nail. It was the Tea Party and Constitutional Conservative movement that gave birth to Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, etc.

There are flawed candidates, to be sure, among those backed by the conservative wing of the Republican Party. RINOs point to Sharon Angle and Richard Mourdock, for example, forgetting that no one wins 100 percent of their slate. Until the afternoon of election day, when the unions started busing in voters from places unknown, Angle was in fact leading Harry Reid handily.

It’s not the conservatives who need to go away. It’s the RINO establishment that should make themselves scarce. Once again, a mushy centrist — who supposedly would appeal to wide swaths of the electorate — lost in a race that should have been a slamdunk.

And in this existential showdown between liberty and tyranny, Mitt Romney could not even attract the same number of voters as... John McCain. Constitutional conservatives, Tea Party conservatives, and fiscal conservatives don’t need to retreat. The RINO country club set needs to cede control to the true heart of the party.”

A constitutional amendment was passed here in Georgia, which was opposed by some entrenched local school interests, that allows entities to go to the state government to obtain charters for schools if local school boards refuse to allow a school to be chartered.

“18. Republicans won historic supermajorities in Tennessee.”
(hope that means no possibility of an income tax there!)

Republicans will have a super majority in the Georgia Senate when an independent Senator goes GOP.

I hate to be the you-know-what in the punch bowl, but unions, environuts, and gun grabbers are going to have a lot more power not. Unions managed to defeat an important measure in CA that would have limited their ability to force union members to pay for their political activities. All these groups want their payback now, and already, unions are talking about reviving card check. Environuts are going to destroy the coal industry and try to stop the Keystone Pipeline, and Obama has expressed support for the UN gun treaty. These are dangerous times.

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posted on 11/08/2012 7:32:22 PM PST
by Pining_4_TX
( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)

A tea Partier took the seat vacated by Thad McCotter. That's nice. Does the new GOP congressman know that the Muslim Brotherhood stands for, or will he be a useful idiot for the MB and their spawn, Al Qaeda, in promoting the Arab/Islamist Spring?

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